Thunderstorm Drought

This was a bad year for photographing lightning. Most storms occurred during the day. In fact this is the best I was able to get this year. The storm was actually too far to the north to get any actual lightning. It did prompt a tornado warning where it hit though I'm not sure if it actually produced anything.

Lake Fog

This was an attempt to take a cool picture of something barely visible in the fog. Unfortunately it was much more impressive in my mind. I did want to post it to show how foggy it was the same day that I took my previous fall color pictures. In case you're wondering, it's a "Slow Wake" buoy near the boat ramp.

Final Fall Colors for 2007

This will be the last of my 2007 fall foliage pictures. This one was taken on the same day as the last one. All in all it turned out to be a pretty good year for observing fall colors, at least locally. It has been a strange one too though, there are still many places around here where the trees are still changing.

Another Fall Picture

This picture was taken on my last day out in the field this year (Hooray!) which was around the middle of October. The day started off with so much morning lake fog that we couldn't see where we were going, but as you can see it quickly burned off to reveal some brilliant fall colors.

Fall 2007

The next few picture will be from the fall colors around my house, which turned out to be much better than what we saw in Missouri or Arkansas. This picture represents the first time we were out on the lake and started to see some color. It was about the only color I saw this time out, which I thought was surprising given how deeply red it is.

Bryophytes

This will be the last of my Ozark Mountain trip pictures (unless I go on another picture taking drought and start posting old stuff). It's a little different than the other grand scale pictures I took on the trip. This is a macro shot of a one of the particularly robust patches of moss that we saw along the trail. I recognized the stuff from my very first biology course I took my freshman year of college. I am always interested in taking pictures of things that most other people might not be interested in, but I always feel like a fool doing it especially when other people see me doing it. I tried to take this picture quickly as a group of people were coming up the trail behind us, but they saw me anyway and were probably thinking I was crazy. Oh well, if they did I suppose they weren't too far off the mark. I did a quick Google image search to make sure I was right about what this moss was, and I must say that I think my image is better than anything else I saw on the web.

Quarry

Elephant Rock State Park used to be a quarry. This, of course, would be the pit where they did all their mining. I thought it made for a good picture with the red trees on either side of it. I kind of wish it had been sunny though and that the reflections would be more than just shadows.

Elephant Rock

This picture comes from Elephant Rock State Park in Missouri. The park is littered with these large boulders which the kids had a lot of fun climbing on and around. I'm told that the views of the surrounding mountains is great from this location, unfortunately it was cloudy and rainy.

A little Color

One of the goals of our trip was to see some fall colors. For the most part it was too early for that, but we did get to see a little, particularly while we were in Missouri. This picture was taken on a hike that my family has labeled as "the death hike" even though no one was lost, hurt, or damaged in any way.

NOTE: As the picture indicates I have become paranoid and cynical in my growing old age and even though I have little worth stealing I will be adding my copyrights to my images now just in case. Plus I just learned how to do it and it makes me feel important.

Pedestal Rock

As the title suggests, this picture is one of the many rock formations that can be found on the Pedestal Rock trail in Northern Arkansas. My middle daughter loved this trail as she was constantly trying to see how close to the edge of the cliff she could get before getting yelled at.